Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator (1819–1905)

The opium revenue : Sir William Muir's minute and other extracts from papers published by the Calcutta government also extracts from Parliamentary papers compiled for the information of Members of Parliament / issued by the Anglo-Oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade.

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William Muir

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The opium revenue : Sir William Muir's minute and other extracts from papers published by the Calcutta government also extracts from Parliamentary papers compiled for the information of Members of Parliament / issued by the Anglo-Oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade.